About Us

GroupLink® Executive Team

David S. TurnerCEO and Founder

David S. Turner is President, CEO and co-founder of GroupLink. He also
brings thirty years experience in industrial software design, development
and implementation.

While directing GroupLink to its current position (Mr. Turner joined
GroupLink full-time in 2000), he has focused the company on the ITIL Service
Support / Help Desk market, and the Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
market. He has also directed other areas of the business growth toward ITIL
and CRM related components, including eReporting, e-business workflow, and
integration with third-party partners. Mr. Turner has introduced and managed
account relationships with key GroupLink customers, including Lincoln
National Corporation, Merita International Bank, New York City, Shell Oil,
and Walt Disney World. Prior to joining GroupLink full-time, Mr. Turner
started product marketing and sales for successful industrial software
products at AutoSimulations, Inc. and Eyring Corporation. That experience
included large scale industrial design, automation and integration projects
with such customers as General Motors, Michelin Tire, Northrop Grumman,
Proctor and Gamble and others. He has also served on the faculty of Brigham
Young University.

Mr. Turner has received credentials from the National CRM Association as a
CRM Certified Professional. He has a B.S. in Materials Science and
Engineering from the University of Utah and an MBA from Brigham Young
University.

Dean L. JolleyCo-Founder

Dean Jolley has over 30 years of experience in the high technology industry.
In 1985, Mr. Jolley founded Auto-Soft Corporation, at the time the only
independent supplier of distribution and automation software in the world.
At one time, all computer and memory chips throughout the world were made
under the material tracking control of an Auto-Soft product. Software
products for distribution were also developed, and Warehouse RX became the
standard corporate worldwide real-time distribution software for Intel,
Motorola Communications, Duty Free Shops, etc. In 1989, Mr. Jolley formed
Eskay Corporation, the North American sales arm for an automation equipment
supplier from Japan, Daifuku Ltd., which grew to $65M in sales by 2000. Mr.
Jolley subsequently sold his interest in this company and, in 1997, also
sold Auto-Soft Corporation. Currently, Mr. Jolley is involved in the startup
or growth of several companies where his involvement ranges from majority
ownership, minority ownership, sitting board member, and/or technical or
business management roles.

Brad L. PorterBoard Advisory Consultant

Brad L. Porter has over 25 years experience directing global and domestic
projects and teams in both the engineering and high-tech fields. Mr. Porter
worked in the Fortune 500 community, directing multi-million dollar projects
involving the selection and deployment of state of the art, best-practices
based technical infrastructure. Mr. Porter also directed multi-million
dollar projects involving the development of web services and web portal
technologies for Citrix Systems Inc. and assisted in the migration of
software assets from the Sequoia and Erogo Inc. acquisitions by Citrix. Mr.
Porter also directed development of supply chain and merchandising software
systems for Armature Inc., a British company, later acquired by Lawson Inc.
He also directed development for a small startup company called Discounts
Direct, later known as Overstock.com

Mr. Porter earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University and
an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Porter serves on the
board of the Project Management Institute, Northern Utah Chapter. Mr. Porter
is PMP certified by PMI and is a staunch supporter of best-practices based
project management.